“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Saturday, December 31, 2011

The ironic absurdity of Michelle Obama taking a 17-day, $4,000,000 Hawaiian vacation and spending a few minutes to ask Americans to give her some money cannot be overstated.....

Over the next 11 months we’ve got an organization to grow, voters to register, and people to get fired up.I hope you’ll close out this year by donating $3 or more now to help make sure we’re ready for the next one . . .Thank you so much, and happy new year,Michelle

Democrat voters are demonstrably low to middle-income Americans and for our own Marie Antoinette First Lady to ask for money from them is beyond the pale. This first family is so out of touch with the nation they govern, it's farcical. They believe that they are entitled to enjoy the lavish trappings of power and spend obscene amounts of tax-payer money on opulent vacations to exotic resorts around the world while the little people back home work three jobs to pay for it all.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

So there's a movement among some conservatives to have a ticker-tape parade of appreciation for the returning Iraq vets. But is this really appropriate? Obama, no fan of the military, has been criticized by republicans for celebrating World Series victories more than returning veterans, but what did our veterans win?

Usually a parade is held when somebody wins something. Did we win the war in Iraq and I missed it? I'm not saying we shouldn't be thankful for the sacrifices made by service members in Iraq, but having a parade just because the President brought the troops home in the middle of a war doesn't make sense.

To show support and appreciation for the troops, I suggest that every time you see a uniformed service member in an airport lounge or neighborhood restaurant, buy him or her a drink or pay for their meal, anonymously. That's far more personal, they'll appreciate that more, and it doesn't look like we're celebrating a victory after the first round of the playoffs.

Friday, December 23, 2011

All across Europe, hostile Muslim immigrants are finding fertile ground in the courts for their bizarre version of law known as Sharia.....

From Diana West over at Townhall -- Freedom of speech no longer exists in Austria, as definitively proven by the Vienna high court. This week, a judge upheld the conviction against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on the following charge: "denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion." In simplest terms, this means that Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff speaks the truth about Islam, and in Austria, as in other nations across the Western world currently transitioning to sharia (Islamic law), speaking the truth about Islam is not tolerated, and, more and more, is against the law.

What did my friend Elisabeth say that the Vienna high court ruled verboten? Elisabeth was convicted in February 2011 of "denigration" of Islam because in the course of a seminar she was teaching on Islam she stated that "Muhammad had a thing for little girls."

The story of the 52 year old Muhammad raping the 9 year old Aisha, the daughter of his best friend, is well documented, but to discuss it for what it is, pedophilic rape, is unpleasant to deranged Muslims who worship their degenerate "prophet" as a god.

That European, and soon American, courts entertain the idea that the barbaric cult of Islam must be defended from slander by silencing free speech on the matter, even if the speech is absolutely true as it is in this case, is chilling to say the least. By convicting a teacher from speaking the truth about Islam, the Austrian courts have given their tacit approval of perverted Muslim men using 9 year old girls for sex under the transparent guise of "marriage".

Europe might be a lost cause and her descent into self-immolating embrace of hostile Muslim hordes in the courts will surely accelerate its inevitable collapse and total submission to Islam. But it might not be too late for North America to back away from this insanity. But if Obama gets four more years to stack the federal courts with Islam-friendly radical judges, who knows?

Read this outrage and then try to tell me that slip-and-fall lawyers aren't one of the biggest problems in the US today....

From Philly.com -- SADDLE RIVER, N.J. - A New Jersey man who overdosed on drugs stolen from a pharmacy is getting $4.1 million to settle his lawsuit.Scott Simon says he suffered permanent nerve damage after taking Xanax given to him by a former employee of a Ridgewood drug store at a party in 2007.Simon's attorney, John Schepisi, tells The Record newspaper The Saddle River resident can't walk without help and has been declared incompetent.Simon sued the pharmacy for not taking proper precautions to avoid theft ofdrugs. He also sued the party's host and his parents, along with several guests.All of them will contribute toward the settlement.

How does this moron taking illegal drugs result in a fabulous payday for him? This is on par with the McDonald's hot coffee settlement in it's utter stupidity. Now the lives of this family are probably ruined and anybody who buys anything from this pharmacy retailer will pay a little more for it so this idiot can live like a king and his skeevy lawyer is laughing all the way to the bank at the hoax he pulled.

I swear, the earthquakes notwithstanding, if I could afford to move to New Zealand I would.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was lifted two months ago allowing gay service people to be openly gay if they want to be. I haven't heard any stories about problems perhaps because it'll take some time for people to get comfortable with it and come out. Well, this week the USS Oak Hill came home from 80 days at sea and as is the tradition in the Navy, a lottery was held to see who gets to run down the gangplank and plant the "first kiss" on a loved one. This year a lesbian won the lottery and got to be the first kiss. As always, they were cheered by their fellow servicemen and it was no big deal.

They didn't make a big deal about being lesbians, only that they were happy that they could just be themselves now. I say good for them. They look happy.

Having said that, these were two otherwise attractive women. What would the reception have been had the kiss been shared by a burly male fighter pilot and his male partner? I'm guessing not as warmly. Why is that? Why do we feel threatened as a society when two men kiss, but not so much when it's women? Is it because women are naturally and openly affectionate toward each other anyway? Or more disturbingly, is it because we subconsciously view the role of men as more reflective of ourselves collectively and the role of women less seriously? I don't know.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Many coordinated explosions rocked Baghdad today, probably designed to show the US that it's business as usual in the third-world hell-hole now that we've pulled out entirely. The US military has no official presence in Iraq, preferring instead to run around Afghanistan being targets for the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

If somebody can show me how the last 9 years in Iraq and 4,500 US lives was worth what is there now, I'd love to be entertained by it. Political and social reform in middle east countries is hopeless at best, and an exercise in utter futility and a colossal waste of resources at worst. What got accomplished? A rudimentary constitution was written, a fledgling coalition government formed, and a first ever election held....but to what end? The insurgent terrorists are still terrorizing the capital at will and the corrupt government is woefully inept in controlling them.

Saddam was a terrible guy and deserved to die, but how long before Islamic extremists begin to assert themselves into leadership roles in Iraq? My guess is not long.

If you're a believer in the wisdom of the ancient Mayans, you're probably planning on how to spend your last year on Earth. The Mayan calendar ends on the Winter solstice(21Dec) in the year 2012. So mystics, shamans, sooth-sayers, Bodhisattva's, and self-promoting preachers are planning on how to cash in on the gullibility of the world's morons.

That said, if you feel the need to divest yourself of your worldly possessions, I am in need of another flat-screen HD TV, an SUV newer than 2005, and whatever cash you have lying around. Simply contact me via Facebook and we'll arrange the "gift".

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Michelle Obama used her husbands power to seize the LA school district lunch program and replace the normal, edible food with the kind of crap she pretends to feed her family...."vegetable curry, lentil and brown rice cutlets, and quinoa and black-eyed pea salads".....GROSS!

21,000 meals a day are being thrown away by students and teachers alike, and forbidden-food black markets have sprung up to satisfy appetites.

The Obama administration shuttled tens of millions to the SEIU thugs who prepare the disgusting meals. No doubt lots of it was used to sign up thousands more workers into the union. See, this wasn't about feeding kids healthy meals, it was about expanding SEIU's union membership as a payback for helping to elect her husband.

Canadian PM Stephen Harper to Obama: "Shit or get off the pot....do you want our oil and the 2,000 jobs that come with it or not because the Chinese are going to buy it?"

Obama to Harper: "No thanks"

Obama's refusal to allow the Keystone XL pipeline, that would transport millions of barrels of oil from Canada to our processing stations in the Gulf, and the thousands of jobs that come with it, not to mention the decrease in dependence on the oil of our enemies, to go forward is proof that Obama cares only for pleasing the moronic environmentalist wackos who got him elected, rather than helping the nation with what should be a no-brainer decision.

Because of Obama's dereliction and hostility to America on this issue will result in Canada selling all that oil to China, our economic overlord and enemy.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Remember how ecstatic we were after the 2010 midterms as we saw the brakes finally being applied to Obama's insane spending? Well, we were duped, big time! John Boehner and his RINO accomplices broke several transparency promises and voted on an 11th hour spending bill they hadn't even read, in order to not get blamed by democrats for shutting down government. Here's Jim DeMint's(he voted against it) account....

From TheHill -- Republicans have pledged to cut spending and quit passing legislation no one had read, but that’s exactly what members of Congress did before leaving for their Christmas vacations. The 2012 omnibus increased spending by more than $18 billion over 2011 levels. Once that bill is signed into law by the President, the total tab for all twelve 2012 appropriations bills will be more than $1.8 trillion, a nearly $21 billion increase over 2011 spending.

If we TEA Party people believe what we say we believe, then maybe some of these guys we put in office should be kicked out, starting with Boehner.

One of my FB friends mentioned this but I didn't know what he was talking about until I came across this site called KimJongIllookingatthings. Apparently the only photographs of the Norks' now room-temperature Dear Leader are of him examining various boring aspects of North Korean life.

The Norks are staging public weeping displays so the world will think they cared for their room-temperature Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il. In such a closed country where the consumption of literally every bit of information is carefully controlled for generations, you wonder if most Norks even know the Earth is round, the moon reflects sunlight, or Lindsay Lohan posed for Playboy.

I'm guessing since most North Koreans survive by eating grass like goats because there's no food, the promise by the government of a radish, a beet, or a couple of carrots would be enough to get them to cry on cue for the cameras.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Heh heh, a dumb NJ cop forgot to observe the most important Internet chat room meme which clearly states that on the Internet...

-men are men
-women are men
-and children are FBI agents

From NJ.com -- A Madison police officer was sentenced to six years in state prison today for soliciting a nude photo from an investigator posing as a 13-year-old girl online, the state Attorney General's Office said in a news release.

I guess the pathology these guys suffer from compels them to interact sexually with children, even though they're cops and know they're going to get busted.

What's the first thing black politicians do when they get caught being corrupt? Why, accuse the person who pointed out their corruption of being racist. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is in big trouble for the Fast and Furious program and he's been caught lying in congressional hearing testimony. As a last play to deflect criticism of his ineptitude, racism, and corruption Holder retreated to the tried-and-true ploy of racism as the reason for his trouble.....

From DailyCaller -- “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” Holder said, according to the Times. “Both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”

You'd think the media would laugh out loud at the preposterousness of this, but then you'd think we had a legitimate media keeping watch over government too, but we don't. Black liberals resorting to the race charge is absurdly transparent and you would think the US Atty. Gen. would be smarter than that. Trying to drag Obama into the race fray might test the last straw of support from the President and I predict we'll see Holder deservedly under the Hope-n-Change bus real soon.

For the Obama's to go on a 17-day Hawaiian vacation odyssey this year, the American taxpayers are on the hook for over $4,000,000.

That Michelle and the girls couldn't wait a day and left early cost the taxpayers an additional $100,000. Also, rather than staying at usual Presidential housing, the Obama's have decided to stay down the block, closer to the beach with a canal behind the house. This means the Secret Service has to rent twice the housing to secure the home. So much for austerity and savings during a national recession. While many Americans are struggling to even have a Christmas, our entitled overlords, the Obama's, are living extravagantly like kings at our expense.

Here's the Obama's Christmas card this year. They should have sent out "Thank You" cards instead.

OK, as regular reader Issac gleefully pointd out, this is not the Obama's Christmas card. This bland, personless, boring room is the official "Holiday card".

Friday, December 16, 2011

Into the spending bill to keep government functioning, republicans inserted a provision that prevents the feds from spending any money to enforce the idiotic ban on 100W incandescent light bulbs that goes into effect 31Dec. Sadly it doesn't repeal the ban, it just takes the teeth out of enforcing it.

Nothing embodies the absurdity of government heavy-handedness combined with the utter insanity of belief in the man-made global warming myth than the US ironically outlawing the sale of our most famous invention, the incandescent light bulb, to save the polar bears.

That the last incandescent light bulb factory in the US shut down this year is a sad testament to how intrusive, over bearing, and capricious our federal government has become in the lives of taxpayers. Sad and pathetic!

Having solved all the nation's other problems, idiot congresscritter from Texas, republican Joe Barton has made it his business to regulate college football. He thinks the BCS is a flawed system of picking a national champion so he drafted a bill which would make it illegal to have a championship game unless it was derived from a playoff system.

The assholes in congress think that the "interstate commerce clause" of the Constitution gives them the right to regulate literally every human activity that displeases them in any way.

Joe Barton should be run out of office immediately. How college football decides its national champion is none of the governments business any more than steroids in baseball and football are none of their business. They're just attention-grabbing whores who think this is the best way to get in front of the camera heading into an election year.

Remember how Nancy Pelosi promised that Obamacare would create 4million jobs over its life and 400,000 almost immediately? Here she is absurdly promising the same thing about unemployment benefits extensions.....

If somebody can explain how unemployment money translates into private-sector jobs, please do it now. And don't give me the even-unemployment-money-stimulates-the-economy-to-create-jobs argument. You can't take money out of the economy to pay for benefits and then put it back in and have it create employment.....it's a zero-sum game.

As the US pulls out of Iraq, we not only leave a treasure trove of military hardware behind for the taking, we also leave a vacuum in the airspace above Iraq. With no US planes patrolling the skies and Iraq not taking possession of newly purchased F-16's until the end of next year, that leaves a 1 year window through which Israel might fly to destroy Iran's nuclear sites.

The shortest route from Israel to Iran is directly over Iraq and with no air defense capability, who'll stop the Israelis from attacking Iran, assuming anybody wants to stop them that is.

Israel destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program would solve a lot of problems for everybody in the region and the world in general. And letting Israel take the heat is nothing new, nor do they mind taking the heat.

If Achmadinejad ratchets up the anti-Zionist rhetoric in the coming months, watch for Israel take the opportunity we handed her and set Iran's nuclear program back a few decades.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

From Yahoo News -- TEHRAN (Reuters) - A member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practice its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official confirmation.The legislator, Parviz Sarvari, told the student news agency ISNA: "Soon we will hold a military maneuver on how to close the Strait of Hormuz. If the world wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure."

Through the Straights of Hormuz flows 30% of the world's seaborne oil and Iran's threat to shut it down, even for a silly exercise will shock world economies. While I support little of our interventionist activities in the middle east, preventing Iran from even slowing down the flow of oil is worth doing, even if it brings us closer to a fighting conflict with the Persian thugs.

They're testing us because they know Obama is an empty suit who doesn't have the convictions necessary to protect American interests. If this were some internal Iranian conflict, I'd say let 'em have at it, but this affects the economies of the whole western world. We should have ships there to guarantee safe passage of tankers and any attempt to disrupt their voyage should be met with violence. Simple as that.

Not that I was ever a big Beck fan at any time, he's always been way too conspiratorial and depressing for me, but his suggesting that the tea-party's opposition to Obama might be about race is insulting. Gingrich might not be the conservative that Sarah Palin is, but if he can beat Obama, he'll get my vote.

Beck just lost me entirely by saying that if I support Gingrich over Obama, it means I'm a racist. I think GBTV just peaked in viewership and it's all down hill from here.

Monday, December 12, 2011

From FoxNews -- Iran claims it is recovering data from downed stealth drone, while U.S. officials are concerned that the drone's secrets — such as its radar-deflecting paint — could be cracked.

I thought the standard procedure for downed aircraft which contain sensitive information-gathering or advanced design technology was to destroy it before the enemy can learn anything from it. Why haven't we blown this thing up yet? You know the Russians and red Chinese are there already paying who knows how many dinars for a thorough look-see.

The Russians can invent their own stuff, but we know the Chinese would rather steal our stuff and reverse engineer it than develop their own. Do we need Chinese drones flying over Hawaii, maybe Alaska, or being launched off their one pathetic carrier near our mainland? Do we need the Russians taking our technology, making fleets of drones, then selling them to our enemies?

Blow this thing up already! Who cares if a few dozen Iranians, Chinese, and Russians get blown up with it....so much the better.

Despite President Obama's edict last month directing all government employees to try to cut back on expenses, specifically by cutting on unnecessary travel costs, Michelle and the girls might be heading off to Hawaii a couple of days ahead of the President at a cost of over $100,000.

If he gets stuck wrangling with Congress over the payroll tax holiday proposal, rather than enjoying Camp David for a couple of days, the ever impatient and entitled Michelle will fly privately at great cost to get started on their lavish, 17-day Hawaiian odyssey vacation on time.

When Michelle travels without the President, there are huge costs involved including the cargo plane that trails her jet, presumably to carry all her luggage? Good grief! No wonder people call her Marie Antoinette. She's already got the largest ever posse of handlers, makeup and hair artists, security details, friends, assistants, etc. No first lady has enjoyed the lavish budget with which Michelle fleeces the American taxpayer.

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Obama daughters, Sasha and Malia, are too good to go to public schools with the DC riff raff that their father's administration has abandoned at the behest of the awful teachers' union. Instead they fritter away their days at the Sidwell Friends School, reserved for the very rich who their father hypocritically vilifies in every speech.

Today is the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. In observance, Sidwell Friends is serving Asian food for lunch. Coincidence? I think not.

No doubt the first daughters are getting a history lesson today about how America was evil and had it coming, as we left the Japanese no choice but to attack us because of our policy in the Pacific. If the democrats had their way, no actual history would be taught, just a regurgitation of the leftist narrative that America is inherently bad and we deserve to be taken down a notch by anybody who wants to do it.

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Until they actually win a naval battle against a capable rival, I remain unimpressed by China's naval might....

From YahooNews -- Chinese navy warship, the DDG-171 Haikou destroyer, is seen in the Gulf of Aden 2009. Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat, amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power. (AFP Photo/Stephane de Sakutin)

Now I'm no expert but I know a few regular readers of TRR who are so if I'm wrong, correct me....

China might yet destroy the US economically, but they don't have a snowballs chance in hell of doing it on the high seas. They should probably stay close to home where rescue ships and freighters can find bodies in the water.

Tim Tebow engineered, or at least inspired, another 4th quarter comeback victory for the Denver Broncos on Sunday bringing his record as a starter to 6-1 and in first place in their division. But outside of Denver, people sneer derisively every time Tebow acknowledges his faith publicly. Why is this?

Before Bill Clinton I was oblivious to the curious phenomenon by which we Americans need to know that our leaders and heroes are no better than the worst of us. To have them be better than us compels us to live up to some standards of behavior. We Americans don't like personal standards of behavior. We like our politicians to lie to and cheat us and molest and kill interns. We like our athletes to carouse, get busted for DUI, and serially cheat on their wives and children. Not that we all behave like that, but as we go about our lives, nobody can point a finger of condemnation at us when Bill Clinton is doing what he did with Monica in the oval office.

We're comfortable feeling superior to dishonest politicians and degenerate athletes and as long as Tim Tebow is losing we can still feel superior, but we are definitely uncomfortable with a good and decent guy being a winner too.

I wonder if other players and sports media would be mocking him if he wore Islam or Hinduism on his sleeve as unapologetically as he does Christianity? That's a rhetorical question. You already know the answer. Tebow's public acknowledgement of Christianity forces us into the uncomfortable position of evaluating our own lives and the media can't have that.

That's why you can count me as a huge Tebow fan. Not just because he's a Christian, but because he confounds the sniping critics who hate what he stands for.

It's never too soon to begin strategizing the hostile colonization of other planets and it looks like we have a target....

Scenerio 1(likely): by the time we figure out how to get to a planet 600 light years away, we'll be so advanced that destroying the local beings and taking their planet for our own will be child's play.

Scenerio 2(more likely): we are already being observed by the folks from this planet and it will be us who are colonized and enslaved by them, and I for one, welcome our Kepler-22b overlords.

Friday, December 02, 2011

Donald Trump is teaming up with Newsmax, the online conservative news magazine, to host a GOP debate from DesMoines, Iowa in December 27. Finally a debate I might watch.

Trump is great in a no-nonsense kind of way when he talks about politics and while I may not agree with his policies always, he's never dull or predictable. Hopefully some of that will show in the kinds of questions he asks.

“What does she have that Sarah Palin doesn’t, didn’t?” asked Richard Wolffe, a fellow contributor.“I think she’s… this is going to get me in trouble, but I actually think she’s just more smarter,” explained McCain

Ms McCain is spoiled, puerile child trying to swim in the deep end of the political pool. But for her dad being a Senator, who would care what she thought about anything? Her usefulness is limited to being an idiot tool of the left. The left-wing media love to showcase her as the mainstream conservative woman, much the same way at the NYTimes fish wrapper showcases the moderate-left David Brooks as its conservative standard bearer.

Evidently she either doesn't know or doesn't care that the left media make fun of her behind her back as she criticizes the GOP for not being bipartisan or moderate enough. She's being used and seems oblivious.

Here's a story about a man in Seattle who got himself choked for using his cell phone in the movie theater. Go here and read the story. But the point is, I rarely go to movies anymore because there's always some moron, jerk, or group of kids who won't shut the hell up or stop texting or talking on their cell phones during the movie. I'm glad this guy got choked. He deserved it. I'd like to throttle people at movies who think they're the only people in the room and disregard entirely the basic rules of public behavior and decorum.

Other peoples' rudeness is the sole reason why if we go to a movie, it's a matinee' or late in the movie run where there are maybe 10 people at each show and we can sit far away from everybody.

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Now that the filthy Occupy vermin have been eradicated from downtown LA, the tedious process of cleaning up, at a cost to taxpayers of $1million, the 30tons of trash, clothes, rotted food, contaminated drug paraphernalia, and human waste they left behind has to begin. Workers had to wear hazmat suits to avoid contact with the thousands of bottles of human urine and dirty drug needles left behind by the diseased, feral animals who resided illegally there for two months.

This is the sort of 14th-Century communal collectivism in which stupid liberals would have us all toiling if they got their way. How Obama, Pelosi, et al can support in any way these vermin is a complete mystery to me.

Let it be noted that this Superfund site was left behind by 300 dirty, Occupy hippies. When TEA Party rallies were held by tens of thousands, we left the parks, cities, and malls cleaner than when we arrived. You won't hear that from the disgraceful media.